Synopsis:
Two mistakes: Donald promises the nephews a Ferris wheel for Christmas. Scrooge promises the Duckburgians a huge Christmas tree. What to do?

Comments:
Scrooge has been tricked into donating a Christmas tree that is taller than the town hall tower and to save face he must comply.
In U$06 'Tralla La' Scrooge also tried to save face but in quite another way; in order to accommodate the citizens of Tralla La he ordered a thousand planeloads of bottle caps to be distributed over the land. Now, there's a donation for you...

Synopsis:
Scrooge buys a volcanic island where he intends to hide his money. But The Beagle Boys learn about his plans!

Comments:
This is an example among many in which Scrooge tries to protect his money from being stolen. He is always prepared to spend vast amounts of funds for that purpose. Curiously, he never seems to consider getting free help from the police force instead!
In this story Scrooge builds a whole factory to can all his money for transportation to Hawaii. That must cost a pretty penny...

Synopsis:
Donald has forgotten to mail the nephews' letter to Santa, and now he must buy the present himself. But they have asked for a steam shovel...

Comments:
Although Scrooge is not a family man he sometimes demonstrates certain feelings for his kin. In this story he goes overboard, as he buys a full-size steam shovel for the nephews.
In CP2 You Can't Guess he voluntarily bought a brand-new car for Donald!

Synopsis:
Scrooge offers the prize of his own weight in diamonds to the owner of the animal that can outrun his wonder horse. He feels confident that no one will come to collect!

Comments:
Scrooge takes quite a chance with fate when offering such a colossal amount of funds for no real reason. Surely he must have realized beforehand that he could lose the amount!
Despite this experience he had another go at a similar, and equally dubious, competition in U$54 The Billion Dollar Safari, where he was willing to pay a cool billion dollars for an elephant...

Synopsis:
Scrooge is hypnotized into buying Christmas gifts for a dog. With the song The Twelve Days of Christmas in mind he decides on the gifts!

Comments:
A sound Scrooge would never buy such elaborate and expensive gifts as he does in this story, but he has no longer any self-control. He becomes a genuine spendthrift!

Synopsis:
Scrooge takes over the job as postmaster in order to provide better service, but he has to deliver a letter to Venus!!!

Comments:
This is a clear case of overreaction from Scrooge's side. He spends countless millions on his project just because he is angered by the poor service provided by Duckburg's mail office.
Another case of overreaction (on a smaller scale, though) was presented in WDCS148 'Petrolio de Vaselino', in which he was dining out with a disguised Donald. At one point Scrooge became so agitated that he simply bought the restaurant just to prove a point.

Synopsis:
Scrooge has more money than he can store and he hires Donald to spend some of it - with an unexpected result!

Comments:
What a dilemma for 'poor' Scrooge! He simply has to spend money in order to make room for more money. No wonder the old miser is reluctant about the whole project, to say the least.

Synopsis:
Donald is an insurance salesman and he has just sold an accident policy to Scrooge. For one billion dollars! Perhaps it was not as clever as it seemed...

Comments:
Scrooge was not a fool! On the contrary, he was extremely sly, because he realized that one has to spend money to make money. The clause in the policy dictated that he was to receive two billion dollars if he was injured. Now Scrooge plans to collect...
In U$17 A Cold Bargain Scrooge at least saw himself as being sly when he bought an unknown substance at an auction for one trillion dollars. The purpose was to sell it with a profit, but the whole idea backfired because nobody could afford to buy the substance...

Synopsis:
Donald accidentally pays Scrooge with an old and valuable dime. When he discovers that his uncle has more of the same sort he becomes greedy.

Comments:
Scrooge spends a whole sack of rare coins in an effort to teach Donald a bit about supply and demand.
In WDCS155 'Where the Rainbow Ends' he was also generous, when he gave away ten thousand dollars to Donald, the nephews, and Gladstone. The purpose was to see who had the best eye for business.

Synopsis:
Scrooge and the wealthy Maharajah of Howduyustan are competing to build the most expensive statue of Duckburg's founder, Cornelius Coot.

Comments:
Scrooge spares no expense when he decides to beat the Maharajah, and he also bears a grudge towards Duckburg's Mayor who sees him as a skinflint. So Scrooge builds numerous, expensive statues that take the wind out of everybody.
Scrooge was equally merciless in his clashes with Flintheart Glomgold.